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The plot thickens…..
Now the weather has improved, we’ve been spending lots of time outside getting on with long overdue jobs. The polytunnel is slowly beginning to fill with seed trays and pots and it won’t be long...
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Nine little pigs…….
It’s that time of year again, we always get our new batch of piglets in May/early June as that seems to work really well for fattening over the summer and dispatch in early November when the weather...
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Creating a resilient garden
Here in Worcestershire and all over the UK, the weather in 2012 was a disaster for gardeners. As some of you may know, until recently, most of our growing space was given over to growing cut flowers...
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August at Dale Cottage
The garden here at Dale Cottage is suddenly overflowing with abundance. Crops of fruit and vegetables are ripening well in the summer sunshine, giving us a daily harvest as well as the promise of...
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Late summer in the garden
There is a touch of Autumn in the air this last week. While the days are still warm and sunny, the early mornings are hazy and dewy underfoot. I love the transition between seasons, it’s an opportunity...
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Damson days……….
We’ve had a bumper crop of Damsons this year. We have a tree in the middle of our orchard and a few more dotted among the hedges surrounding our field and this year, they are particularly abundant. I...
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October in the garden…
To quote a much used poem at this time of year, the ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ is well and truly here. With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run To bend with apples the moss’d...
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November at Dale Cottage…
The leaves on the mulberry tree have turned this beautiful golden colour. The tree is at the front of the orchard, visible from the kitchen window and every spring I look out at it’s bare branches...
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2014, a year of healthy eating…..
It’s been a wild, wet and windy start to 2014 here in Worcestershire. Not great weather for gardening or winter walks, much more suited to days in by the log burner. I’ve been putting these indoor...
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February at Dale Cottage
We are still in the soggy grip of a wet and windy winter here at Dale Cottage. We skate through the mud each day as we go about our daily chores, trying to vary the route to veg patch and hen house so...
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